Bug#734153: libhdf4-alt-dev doesn't work on mips*

[Alastair McKinstry]

Package: libhdf4
Severity: normal

Building ncl with libhdf4-alt-dev, it FTBFS on mips and mipsel due to:

cc -ansi  -fPIC -g -O2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security    -I../../../.././include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/gdal  -I/usr/include/hdf-eos5 -I/usr/include/hdf   -DBuildRasterHDF -DLINUX -DBuildRasterHPPCL -DBuildRasterNrif -DBuildRasterSun 		-DBuildRasterXWD  -DBuildRasterAVS -DBuildRasterSGI 		-DBuildRasterAbekas  -DBuildRasterBinary -DBuildRasterYUV 		-DNGTMPDIR='"tmp"' -Dmips -DIBM -DSYSV -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -DByteSwapped -DNeedFuncProto  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -c -o hdf.o hdf.c
In file included from /usr/include/hdf/hdf.h:20:0,
                 from hdf.c:54:
/usr/include/hdf/hdfi.h:1886:1: error: unknown type name 'No'
 No machine type has been defined.  Your Makefile needs to have someing like
 ^
/usr/include/hdf/hdfi.h:1886:12: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'type'
 No machine type has been defined.  Your Makefile needs to have someing like
            ^
/usr/include/hdf/hdfi.h:1886:12: error: unknown type name 'type'
In file included from hdf.c:54:0:
/usr/include/hdf/hdf.h:134:1: error: unknown type name 'int32'
 typedef int32 HFILEID;
 ^
/usr/include/hdf/hdf.h:136:15: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '*' token
 typedef intn (*hdf_termfunc_t)(void);   /* termination function typedef */
               ^
In file included from /usr/include/hdf/hdf.h:143:0,
                 from hdf.c:54:
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:35:7: error: unknown type name 'int32'
       int32       acc_id;       /* Access ID for H layer I/O routines */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:36:7: error: unknown type name 'int32'
       int32       bit_id;       /* Bitfile ID for internal use */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:39:7: error: unknown type name 'int32'
       int32      block_offset, /* offset of the current buffered block in the dataset */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:43:7: error: unknown type name 'intn'
       intn       count,        /* bit count to next boundary */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:45:7: error: unknown type name 'uint8'
       uint8       access;       /* What the access on this file is ('r', 'w', etc..) */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:46:7: error: unknown type name 'uint8'
       uint8       mode;         /* how are we interacting with the data now ('r', 'w', etc) */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:47:7: error: unknown type name 'uint8'
       uint8       bits;         /* extra bit buffer, 0..BITNUM-1 bits */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:48:7: error: unknown type name 'uint8'
       uint8      *bytep;        /* current position in buffer */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:49:7: error: unknown type name 'uint8'
       uint8      *bytez;        /* end of buffer to compare */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:50:7: error: unknown type name 'uint8'
       uint8      *bytea;        /* byte buffer */
       ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:57:1: error: unknown type name 'uint8'
 const uint8 maskc[9]
 ^
/usr/include/hdf/hbitio.h:67:1: error: unknown type name 'uint32'
 const uint32 maskl[33]
 ^
In file included from /usr/include/hdf/hdf.h:144:0,
                 from hdf.c:54:
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:62:1: error: unknown type name 'uint16'
 extern uint16 compress_map[];
 ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:86:13: error: unknown type name 'int32'
             int32       nt;     /* number type */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:87:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn        ndim;   /* number of dimensions */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:88:13: error: unknown type name 'int32'
             int32      *dims;   /* array of dimensions */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:99:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn    quality;    /* Quality factor for JPEG compression, should be from */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:101:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn    force_baseline;     /* If force_baseline is set to TRUE then */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:111:13: error: unknown type name 'int32'
             int32   nt;     /* number type of the data to encode */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:112:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn    sign_ext;   /* whether to sign extend or not */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:113:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn    fill_one;   /* whether to fill with 1's or 0's */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:114:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn    start_bit;  /* offset of the start bit in the data */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:115:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn    bit_len;    /* number of bits to store */
             ^
/usr/include/hdf/hcomp.h:121:13: error: unknown type name 'intn'
             intn    skp_size;   /* size of the individual elements when skip


Some definitions need to be added to hdfi.h for Debian MIPS machines.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: mips*

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash